I have one user whose mailbox drops connections on a machine that is up and generally accepting mail. Currently this user has five messages waiting to be sent to them, each one getting progressively longer retry times. I would like to see the retry time for new message for a remote address that already has a temporary failure associated with it start at the current longer delay time, instead of each message backing off on its own schedule. Sound good? Would this require much additional space within qmail-send? Perhaps a file of backoff times could be maintained and read only when a delivery has temporarily failed, to prevent additional memory use by qmail-send What thinks everyone? _______________________________________________________ David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enough already.